How will the tokenization of RWAs affect the financial landscape

Through the conversion of indivisible and often illiquid RWAs into digital tokens that each represent a fraction of the asset, tokenization enables more accessibility, liquidity, and market efficiency.

How does tokenized real estate differ from REITs?

Investing in REITs is acquiring shares in a company that holds a portfolio of real estate, while purchasing a tokenized real estate asset grants direct fractional ownership over the specific asset. Additionally, REITs investors do not have direct ownership of the property portfolio and generally do not partake in direct capital gains from sale of assets, while owners of a tokenized real estate will.

What is the advantage of tokenizing gold?

Tokenizing gold allows investors to easily add any amount of gold to their portfolio without incurring costly custody or management fees, or bearing the burden of physically storing the gold themselves. Tokenized gold on DeFi also allows investors to quickly swap between gold and other tokenized assets to capitalize on unique market opportunities.

What is the social impact of RWA tokenization?

The tokenization of RWAs promises to enable greater social mobility by opening access to many capital markets that used to be the domain of institutions and ultra-high-net-worth individuals.

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Khoong Hock Yun , Managing Partner at Tembusu Partners and Board Member of Klatyn Foundation

Khoong Hock Yun is a Managing Partner at Tembusu Partners and a Board Member of the Klatyn Foundation. He was the Chief Digital Evangelist and Assistant Chief Executive Officer (Development) at the Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) of Singapore, where he was responsible for all Infocomm Communications Technology (ICT) development activities in industry, infrastructure, and manpower as well as Singapore’s adoption and use of ICT. Under Khoong Hock Yun's tenure, Singapore grew strongly as Asia’s leading dynamic and vibrant ICT hub with ICT industrial revenue growth from S$20B in 2000 to $70B in 2015. Before IDA/IMDA, Mr. Khoong managed a global business in Mentor Graphics Corporation (USA). He is a Harvard Business School alumnus.

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